Reply To: OUTLANDER ISSUES ****SPOILER ALERT****

[nolakate]

while I understand the plot lines and the historical reality of rape in that time, I cringe reading them-sometimes just skip ahead. I was a 911 operator for 10 years in a major city. if I never have to take another call from someone who has been raped, it will be too soon. it is impossible to explain the pain, humiliation, fear, embarrassment in the voices of these callers. and the proper responses to get them help is almost as hard. I believe that even in that time and place, rape was the same as now – an obscene violation of another human